Author: djuggler

• Virus Removal, hard drive repair and updates on machine 1
• OS installation on a Compaq ProLiant DL590/64
• Updates to website 1
• Planning for the week
• Something around the house
• D&D
• All the things I’ve overlooked or couldn’t possibly plan on

Hurray! A computer repair that I was making on a Windows 98 machine has finally come together. It was riddled with viruses, bad drivers and spyware. Now its a very well functioning machine.

Karate

I hate afternoons

What were they thinking?! My image of him shall forever be crushed. Eyes are kinda heavy don’t you think. Nudge nudge

To all you Second Amendment people out there, only three days left to bid!

One of the things I’m becoming very skilled and called upon more often is to clean viruses and other bad things from people’s computers. One of the most nightmarish of these is "MediaMotor" which is like a cancer in an operating system. But I can get it! Today’s nasties include:

• e2give
• IBIS Toolbar
• ImlServer IEPlugin
• MediaMotor
• WindUpdates
• Alexa
• ClickSpring
• PromulGate
• Roings
• CoolWebSearch
• an updefined browser hijacker

Of course, the bulk of the work is always getting a machine functioning enough just to be able to address these issues. I do enjoy it because its a challenge.

I wish I could buy a Macintosh! I’ve written a rather elegant web application with valid html, valid css, no tables and well thought out. However, when the client tries to upload a file to the server using the webbased form through Safari it fails. The application works fine in Mac IE5, PC IE6, PC FF. This problem has set me back two days on my development schedule!

You can help me do my testing by helping me get a Free MiniMac. Just go here, sign up, and complete one offer. If only 10 people do this they will send a MiniMac my way and make my development efforts smoother. You can encourage 10 people to sign up under you to get the same deal. The offers are credit cards applications, blockbuster memberships, etc. One offer used to be an online ordering of printer ink which is something we all need to do anyway.

When the kids are asleep, don’t go upstairs for anything!

haha! I was just phone solicited from someone wanting to SEO colknox.com. He guaranteed the top 10 of the major search engines but wanted to know if colknox.com was a joke.

A study has shown that people with private insurance get appointments faster than people on Medicaid or cash pay. The closing advice is to lie to get your appointment.

We have personally experienced this very frustrating bias. I love the crazy look people give you when you explain that you don’t have insurance.

The air conditioner died. The repairman will be by this morning. I’d like to be cleaning the house but I have several projects I need to be simultaneously working. I will maintain my cool in this heat but its going to take effort.

I let 3 domains expire by accident last night. I could have renewed all 3 for $27 but now that they are in the redemption phase I have to pay $99.95 per domain to get them out of redemption then pay the $8.95 per domain for renewal. OR I wait 36 and gamble that I can register the domains before a robot harvester/squatter grabs them and then I pay $14.95 per domain. Oh, I went into the bedroom last night to get my wallet and forgot that I wasn’t there to lie down. I was only in love with one of the domains.

On our death throes
Will we commemorate our angry moments
And the times we sat silent
Hoping someone would read our mind.

Will we cheerish our passive aggressive behaviors
And long to relive the hostilites.
Will my hand to my face recognize the wrinkles
As descendants of frowns.

There is enough evil without to help us grow old
Altogether too soon.
No need for the evil within to speed the process
So quash all ill thought and live without regret.

Choose to be happy
And those around you will bask in your joy.
Choose to smile and be open
And there will be no reason to frown.

-DM

So I’m trying to repair this Windows 98 SE machine and the nic needs a new driver. So I put everything on my Lexar Jumpdrive but it needs a special driver for Windows 98 SE. So I download the driver to a floppy disk.. yes, remember those things? And I put it in the drive but the machine won’t recognize the disk. I format a new one and it doesn’t recognize that. So I decide I’ll burn a cd and I go to get the usb drive from the back of the machine only to find that the machine I’ve been putting the floppy into doesn’t have the usb drive plugged in. Matter of fact, no cables or anything is plugged in because that machine is in line for repair when I’m done with this. Aye!